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East Lansing: General East Lansing Development
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East Lansing has recieved their SmartZone designation from the state of Michigan. They are trying to get a technology incubator in downtown East Lansing. Do you think this will work?
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I am very unclear about the specifics of the SmartZone designation. If you have any details on how it works and what exactly it offers that would be great, I've heard of it a lot.
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- CommentAuthorMichMatters
- CommentTimeSep 15th 2006
Jared, you should post the LSJ articles when these things come out to frame the issue. -
http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=37606
E.L. creates 'technology incubator'
By KRIS TURNER
The State News
East Lansing isn't just a Cool City — now it's a smart one, too.
In a joint meeting between business, city and university officials Thursday, the city received its first designation as a SmartZone from the state.
A SmartZone is an area in a city meant to house businesses with a focus on technology, East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton said.
"One of the obvious reasons to create (a SmartZone) is to have jobs for our residents, but more importantly, to create jobs for the people graduating fr0m Michigan State," he said. "There aren't as many job opportunities for them in Michigan."
SmartZones provide businesses with planning, grant writing and tax incentives.
The city is actively working to become more of a cutting-edge place to open and operate a business, East Lansing Mayor Sam Singh said. The downtown area is being molded into a hot spot for technologically savvy companies.
"This is an opportunity for us to real -
There is another project under development. Across the street from Blockbuster Video on Grand River, near Stonehouse Village, one of the churches is building a 'Christian Science Reading Room', or something pretty close to that title. They have actually been working on it now for a while, I will try to get a picture of it. They also have a rendering of it on site.
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- CommentAuthorMichMatters
- CommentTimeSep 23rd 2006
So this is what's been going on over at the First Church of Christ Scientist. I hadn't been by there for awhile, and had figured they were just updating the grounds. -
Couple pics of The Beaumont:
And the Mercantile Bank building:
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A new project listed on the Planning commission's agenda from October 11th:
Site Plan: An application from Joseph Goodsir for the properties at
237, 242 and 243 Louis Street to remove the existing multiple family
structures and build a new 3-story apartment building containing 24
three-bedroom units with two floors of underground parking to
accommodate 72 vehicles. The site is zoned RM-32 City Center
Multiple Family Residential. (J. Rogers)
I'm just curious, about where is that in relation to downtown? -
- CommentAuthorMichMatters
- CommentTimeOct 15th 2006 edited
This is two blocks from the intersection of Michigan and Grand River within the "Delta" subdivision, you know, the triangle bordered by Harrison to the west and the intersection of Grand River and Michigan to the east. -
Would you consider that area to be "urban" and would you expect a building like the one described above to be built with an urban design given the area?
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Yeah, that area is just a block away from the West Village development, and is next to a couple other large apartment buildings that are three to four stories tall. I am not sure if I would classify it as urban, but that specific road is getting to be pretty densely populated. Maybe I have a stereotype for an urban setting, but I am happy to see that it would be mixed use, (as there would be parking within the building).
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It was the underground parking that caught my eye, to be specific two floors of underground parking. I almost doubt that will really happen, to build two floors of underground parking is extremely expensive, the only other place in Lansing that has it, as far as I know is under the Capitol Complex.
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Well, as expensive as it is, I know that parking in that block is extremely crazy. On Saturday I went over to my friends apartment there, and since it was a football game day, there were cars parked illegally in spots all over. If you take a look at a map of that area, that road being a dead end doesn't make the parking situation any better.
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Well maybe given the ridiculous prices of student housing around their it's actually feasable...
BTW I just found a rendering of the proposed Kresge Art Museum:
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I went on a photo tour today, I will post the photos on the main page of metrolansing.com in a bit.
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I posted the photos now on the home page of the site. I am fighting with putting the images up in both places, and I also want to have updates to the home page.
Also, to continue the conversation that was started a little earlier about a building proposed on the Delta Triangle with two floors of underground parking and three floors of residences: I took my camera down that street today, and took a picture of a building that is already on that block and looks almost exactly like what is proposed, to give you a good idea of what to expect. I am not sure if this has two floors of underground parking, but it does have at least one.
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That actually looks pretty good, I'd say, at least for what it is.
I am still REALLY impressed with the new MSU parking ramp, it has to be one of the best designed ramps around. With that hall rennovation, was that an old building or an addition thats down to it's skeleton? -
- CommentAuthorMichMatters
- CommentTimeOct 25th 2006
More Kresge Art Museum expansion renderings. It's being designed by SHW Group of Berkley, MI (suburban Detroit) in conjunction with Hammel Green Abramson as the associate architects
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I can't wait to see some of these MSU projects come to fruition. MSU has been lagging behind the other universities it seems, as far as new construction goes. Being the largest university in the state, they really deserve more.
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I think MSU has just been waiting to finish it's capital campaign, but now that it has raised the more than it was targeting, I would suspect that these projects may start within the next two years. I am sure they still have a lot of planning to do. This past summer, there was much construction on campus with roadways and transportation changes, all getting ready for the summer of 2008 when they will be constructing the railroad underpasses. This coming summer, you can expect more transportation changes as the 20/20 Vision Plan continues to pick up steam.